Rossi stopped his hike and embraced the snow that was floating down around him. "You know that sometimes we can lose sight of things and take them for granted."
"What are you talking about?" Morgan asked.
"Well, just look around you. We are surrounded by this glorious scenery with the newly fallen snow, the green pine trees, clean fresh air, and yet we wouldn't be here unless we were on this case." Rossi observed.
"Yeah, well you go on enjoying your day with nature, I just want to find what we are looking for so we can be done with all of this." Morgan vented.
"What's with you?" Rossi paused. "Don't tell me that you are still upset about Reid."
"I don't know how I feel. I mean, on the one hand I understand it, I have done deep undercover. You become someone else, you need to or you don't survive. It is about keeping secrets, even from people that you love."
"And on the other hand?" Rossi asked.
"When I got out of that assignment it took me some time to feel like I was truly myself again. But I never lost sight of who I was or where I came from." Morgan paused. "I don't know who he really is."
"Don't you?" Rossi stared at him. "Regardless of how he does his hair or what shoes he wears, he is still your friend. He wasn't faking or pretending his friendship with you, with any of us."
"How can you be so casual about all of this?" Morgan questioned. "Didn't you feel like you were lied to?"
Rossi took a step closer to him. "Look, whatever the kid's reasons were, they are his. I can accept that, can you?"
"I just need to know that the person watching my back is someone I can trust." Morgan vented.
"After all the two of you have been through you are seriously doubting his loyalty to you and this team?" Rossi stared at Morgan.
Morgan shook his head. He knew that no matter what that he was able to see past it and adjust to who his friend is. But there was still something that gnawed at him.
Rossi could see the wheels in Morgan's head turning. "It's Alex, isn't it? She's the one you don't trust."
"To be perfectly honest, no I don't." Morgan admitted. "Am I the only one who thinks that she is still playing games? Why are we trusting her? She was working with Knight, for all we know she is doing the same with Parker."
"In spite of your skepticism, we have a job to do and we're going to do it. Now let's get going before the snow comes down even harder." Rossi started back up the pathway.
"I thought you were enjoying being one with nature." Morgan remarked.
"Eh, well, too much of anything can be a bad thing." Rossi smirked.
Hank threw open the door as he left the back room and stepped out of the doorway. He wiped his hands with a towel then tossed it onto the ground. "I'm going for a smoke." He announced going out the front door.
Alex had been sitting on the floor with her back against the footboard of the bed with her legs stretched out in front of her. She was unable to hold herself up anymore; her head was now lying in a pool of blood.
Hank opened the door letting in Parker and followed close behind. Parker headed directly to the bedroom where Alex was passed out on the floor. He tilted his head as he looked at her then kicked her thigh to wake her up. "Are you ready to tell me what I need to hear?"
Alex looked up at her old boss standing directly over her. "I… I…" She stuttered with the stain of bloody drool on her chin.
"You what?" He was hopeful.
She mustered as much energy as she could and kicked him in the shin.
"You stupid bitch!" He yelled as he grabbed onto his leg. Parker shook off the pain then leaned down over her. "I don't care if I have to break every bone in your body. I will get what I want. I have waited years for my due and I'm not going to wait any longer."
"I have nothing to tell you." She snarled at him.
"Knight had this place custom built, he used to call it his 'Money Cabin'. I know my millions are here! And you are going to help me get it!" Parker promised.
"When are you going to get it through your fat head? I don't know where your damn money is and I've never been here before. I hope you do find it… and shove it up your ass!" Alex screamed.
Parker kicked her in the gut. Alex tried to catch her breath and coughed blood onto the ground. She gave into the pain and passed out. He turned and went back to his henchmen. "Keep working on her, we don't have much time left."
"Will do." Hank assured. "Oh, I thought you might want to keep some souvenirs." Hank pulled from his pocket an old pill bottle and handed it over to Parker.
Parker opened the bottle and emptied it. Two of Alex's bloody molars fell into his hand. "If only I could have these put on a necklace." He chuckled as he put them back in the bottle. "The next time I come out here I better have some answers."
"What about the FBI? Do they know about this place?" Hank asked.
"I don't think so, this wasn't place wasn't connected to Knight in anyway. You let me handle them, you get back to work. The sooner you find the money, the bigger bonus you will get." Parker exited the cabin where his driver was waiting keeping his SUV warm.
Hank turned to his crew and slapped his hands together. "You heard the man, lets get back to work."